Cynthia White -- the personnel employee that state officials said was wrongly fired from the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics -- is returning to the school in a different job at the same pay.

White will work as a social/clinical research assistant for the elite public high school in Durham, making the same $49,148 a year salary she received before she was fired in mid 2010. The school has also agreed to give her back pay and benefits.

Aaron Plourde, the school's communications director, said the new job, back pay and benefits are not part of a settlement. He said school officials decided to accept the decision of the State Personnel Commission, which ruled that White was wrongly fired.

Plourde said the decision allows for White's attorney to petition the commission to order the school to pay reasonable legal costs in the case.

Millbrook faces East Chapel Hill in 4-A and Eastern Wayne plays at Cardinal Gibbons in the NCHSAA dual-team tennis semifinals.
 

East Chapel Hill plays at Leesville Road on Friday at 6:30 p.m.

The third round of the NCHSAA girls soccer playoffs are set to begin Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, but weekend storms have kept two girls soccer games on the eastern half of the brackets from being completed until Monday night.

The second round of the NCHSAA girls soccer playoffs takes place either Friday or Saturday. Here are all the match-ups from around the area and the rest of the state.

The NCHSAA boys dual-team tennis playoffs continue with the third round on Tuesday. The third round, regional finals and state championship will all be held next week.

The regional finals are scheduled for Thursday, with state championships taking place at school sites on Saturday. See the match-ups here.

The NCHSAA boys dual-team tennis playoffs begin Tuesday, and the brackets were unveiled today. The winners advance to next Tuesday's second round. The regionals for the individual boys tennis championships begin Friday at area venues.

2010 STATE MEN’S SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIPS

Curtis and Jacqueline Dail Soccer Stadium, N.C. State University

 
Saturday, November 21, 2010
 
Class 3-A: 10 a.m.
Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons High School Crusaders (22-1-2) vs. Hickory High School Red Tornadoes (25-1-2)

Class 2-A: 1 p.m.
East Duplin High School Panthers (21-2-4) vs. Shelby High School Golden Lions (21-3-2)
 
Class 1-A: 4 p.m.
Durham North Carolina School of Science and Math Unicorns (20-1) vs. Hendersonville High School Bearcats (25-2-1)

 
Class 4-A:  7:30 p.m.
Durham Jordan High School Falcons (24-0) vs. Charlotte Myers Park High School Mustangs (25-1)

This week's statewide soccer rankings are littered with Triangle-area teams.

Gerald Boarman, who announced earlier this week his plans to retire as chancellor at the N.C. School of Science and Math, has a new job lined up.

Boarman, whose resignation from NCSSM is effective July 31, takes over this summer as the head of the Bullis School, a private school in Potomac, MD.

The Maryland school is a college preparatory day school for grades 3 to 12 just outside Washington D.C. It announced Boarman's hiring in this press release.

“We look to Jerry first and foremost as an educational leader who will sustain and enhance our excellent academic program, and his entire career attests to his ability to fulfill that role,” Ken Thompson, chair of the Bullis School. board of trustees, said in the release. “We also anticipate that he will provide tremendous assistance to our ongoing capital campaign, and to the continued improvement of our science and technology facilities.”

Boarman surprised many in Durham with his decision to step down after a decade at the helm of the elite, residential high school for academically gifted students. The school's enrollment swelled under his leadership, though questions also arose over administrators he hired and pay he received.